Cross Connections

When I saw this picture, it filled me with revulsion because, unlike images of violence that you can screen or turn away from, this was ...

The last thing one would think about in a men's innerwear ad is a mother. The Amul Macho series has had some 'macho' moments, ...

A Mirage called Malala : Another Daughter of the East?  by Farzana Versey, CounterPunch, July 15 Had Edward Snowden exposed the dirt of ...

It is easy to run down television, but aren't we overdoing its impact on children? Does it convey a dumbing down if childre...

It is always heartwarming to discover that a human interest story manages to result in some concrete action - there are people willing...

"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it."  - Walt Disney  ...

Helen Hunt with her baby When I read about Helen Hunt getting a baby due to an ‘uplifting experience’, I adduced it must have been c...

"The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it a...

A 15-year-old Muslim girl is permitted by the high court to marry. Forget the level of maturity of our grandmothers who did not make a cho...

“At least he is doing something,” they say. Yes. This charity consciousness may work for those who do not have to go through the problems ...

Adults fake it. Do children? Anders Breivik’s smiling picture as a four-year-old is being used by psychologists to analyse what led him to ...

When I read the media quoting activists, especially on the issue of teenage sexuality, I think there is often too much effort in an atte...

Just the other day, they were telling us how bad the situation is in Mumbai. How do you solve this problem? Bring a group of Kashmiri kids....

Justice V R Krishna Iyer has said that  currently the greatest enemy of India is not so much Pakistan but terrorism. I object, M’Lord. You...

He is so stupid. Why did he say that? Now? Rahul Gandhi made the mistake of in some circuitous way accepting vulnerability and in a manner o...